Posts in "Health is Wealth"

We picked up this habit from the mister-to-be's side of the family: every night, without fail, they have a salad with their dinner. We've always tried to do the same, but we didn't always follow-through, until a beautiful salad bowl found its way into the kitchen.

Editor’s Note: Every Friday, we send out an email newsletter to our fans (sign-up for mor.sl to be added to our email list!). In them, we offer nerdy debates around the week’s events/news/scandals — of course, we always tie them back to food.

Most of the bloggers that I've come to adore make everything from scratch. While I'd love to follow in their footsteps, I'm just not there yet. I still use canned beans instead of cooking my own (in case you're wondering why that matters, it's because the canned ones have salt, preservatives and BPAs.

I toyed with the idea of doing a 3-day juice cleanse. It sounded like a nice thing to do: stuff yourself with fruits and veggies and nothing else for 3 days, drop some water weight and remove toxins from your body.

It's apparently raining Soy Vay! here at mor.sl, and I am loving the weather. I'm seriously impressed with this saucy line. Tried two new ones tonight - both dishes got rave reviews from my picky palate hosts (the sis and bro-in-law), and I honestly can't wait to share the goodness with another lucky mor.

One of my favorite kitchen quick fixes is avocado toast. Appropriate for breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner, on its own or with a simple bite of soup or eggs, it is a very versatile little dish.

If I had to sum  up the city of Philadelphia in one word right now, it would be "gray." The sky is constipated, as our designer put it, threatening to storm but instead only managing to spit up some drizzle and mist.

My adventures in vegetarianism continue over here in Philly. It's been kind of cool, because the nights that I am cooking, I'm forced to be a little more creative. Plus, I've really enjoyed showing my sister and brother-in-law (enthusiastic newbies in the kitchen who really appreciate great tasting food), that they can have incredible meals without the $75 bill and without all the fuss.

I don't have too many vices: I don't smoke, I hardly even drink anymore (not happy about that one); I don't even drink coffee (also unhappy about that one)! I may not eat as healthily as some (I definitely enjoy my fair share of mac and cheese and pizza.

The New York Times is apparently feeling a bit of summer nostalgia along with the rest of us, as they featured this amazing grid of corn recipes from Mr. Bittman. So far, I've tried only one of these dozen recipes for leveraging the last haul of summer corn, but I intend to squeeze in a few more before it is too late.

Do you ever crave kid foods? Mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, fish sticks? I don't blame you. These foods are part of a secret food group known as fun foods. Fun foods are not magical or complex in flavor - they are simple, reliable standbys that are delicious and, well, fun to eat.

Early in the summer I was in love with my lettuce patch. Baby lettuces made for delicate little leafy plates. One evening when I scampered out at dusk to gather my daily harvest I noticed the lettuce was no longer such a baby.

Ever scroll through your facebook feed and feel slightly worse than you felt before? I've developed this horrible habit of reading my feed first thing each morning. It makes me WANT.

Editor's Note: Today’s post is contributed by guest blogger, Sarah, author of Snixy Kitchen. Sarah is a graduate student in California (yeah, Berkeley!) who cooks to keep herself sane while the prospect of writing a dissertation looms in the not-so-far-off distance.

I'm fortunate. Last weekend, David and Melissa had us over for an awesome home cooked meal, and this weekend, Kim and Mike had us over for dinner. It is an amazing thing to have friends cook for you, to be invited into their homes, to laugh and to share stories.

Oh, the universe works in strange ways. I don't write much on this blog about my journey as an entrepreneur (I started a blog about that a long time ago, called Zest, very out of date, but still relevant concepts if you're interested in the topic), but if I did, my posts would be voluminous.

I know I've posted a fair number of posts about smoothies in the past, (see here and here), but as I mentioned last week, I think I've cracked the nut here. I'm drinking it as I type and basically, it's like tasting heaven.

I was wasting two meals of the day. Sure, for dinner I always cook a vegetable, a protein and a small salad (no, you don't really cook salad...) - that's a pretty balanced meal. But for breakfast I usually have a cup of tea (zero nutritional value) and for lunch I usually have a sandwich with chips (must have chips - they are my big weakness alongside a sandwich.

Raw kale salads are suddenly everywhere in Los Angeles. The first bite is always a shock - I've never fully processed how tough kale is somehow transformed into delicious salad green.

There are different kinds of people in the world when it comes to cooking: the plan aheaders, the last minute frenzy cook, the i-don't-cook cook. I fall somewhere in between the first two.